Re: [HIG] Naming

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

I think HIG is ok.


Christian
(A non-member of the committee currently without name)



Adam Elman wrote:
> As I said before, I continue to believe that GNOME Human Interface
> Guidelines is the best title, and unless everybody else besides Maciej
> feels that this is too "Apple-like" for comfort, I would continue to
> stick with it.
> 
> All amusing jokes aside, the usability community tends to be pretty
> consistent in trying to include "human" as much as possible -- the field
> is called Human-Computer Interaction (or Computer-Human Interaction if
> you happen to be the ACM, but that's a whole 'nother rant :)  Human
> Interface is an accurate description and very common terminology for
> what we're talking about.  Every other way of stating it ("User
> Interface", "Usability", or just "Interface") has additional
> ramifications which at best I find uncomfortable and at worst I find
> unacceptable.  If hackers don't understand the term "Human Interface,"
> (or, as Maciej noted, "GNOME Human Interface,") well, it's time for them
> to learn about it.
> 
> As Kathy said, "Standard" is way too strong for this, and "Style Guide"
> is too weak.  So "Guidelines" is the right term.  Hence, we are left
> with the current title, and so I vote for keeping it as is.
> 
> Adam